SPECIAL GABLE NEWS.

West Coast Times, Issue 7299, 21 January 1889, Page 2

SPECIAL GABLE NEWS.

London, Jan, 15, At a meeting of the British Borneo Trading Company, it was decided to open a timber trade with Australia. The Standard strongly protests against protracting the sittings of the Times-Parnell Commission by inquiring into the circumstance of various cases of outrage and boycotting in Ireland, the evidence in which from the similarity of the cases, is becoming

hackneyed and wearying in tbe extreme* That such outrages were committed, Baysit. the Patriellitep Mjbiis but the

ing the complicity of Irish members in acts of outrage. An English and French Syndicate has acquired two hundred square miles ' of auriferous country in Dutch Borneo. Several Australian mining capitalists Are interested in the undertaking. January 17. Lord Saliibury has forwarded instructions to tbe British Consul at Apia, similar in terms to those given by the United States Government to their representative in Samoa, as to the observance of neutrality in the present ■ituatiOD. A rumour has obtained currency to the effect that Jaok tbe Ripper, the Alleged author of the recent, Whiteehapel horrors, has been captured, and a wild sensation has been created in the Metropolis in consequence. Up to the present, however, the police have received no confirmation of the report, which is generally discredited. The London Standard, in the course of an article on the prospect of the new Victorian loan, says tbe Victorian debt is very modsrate compared with the pnblic debt of other Colonies, and proceeds to show that the present time is very opportune for placing a loan on the London market, as the credit of the Colony has not been subjected to any aevere strain. The successive land booms in Victoria have in a small and venturous way been an imitation of the land speculations which occurred in the Argentine Republic, and cash is now required iv abundtmoe to enable the Victorian financial bodies to come easily through their trouble. The arrest of Jack the Ripper arose from the extraordinary likeness of an Englishman named Gray (who bas just arrived from Tunis) to the alleged author of the Whitecbapel horrors. Lillywhite states that he is a loser by the recent cricket and football tours in Australia. St. Petersburg, Jan. 16. The Czar has addressed a letter to the Pope expressive of his gratitude to the Almighty for his miraculous escape from death in tbe recent railway accident at Azor, and claiming that God is directing the destines of Russia. Washington, Jan. 16. Mr Klein insists that the Washing* ton Conference of 18S7 granted the Samoans the right to elect their own King, President Cleveland, in his message to Congress, declines Germany's proposal for co operation with the United States for the settlement of affairs in Samoa, and invites Congress to decide the coarse to be taken by America. There are now large fleets of the United States war vessels on each side of the Isthmua of Darien, and several other vessels are being despatched. Rome. Jan, 15. The Pope has presented gifts valued at £10,000 to many dignitaries of tha Roman Catholic Church in Ireland.